IT"S A BOY!!!

And here are the pictures to prove it! Our incredible 7 oz. baby boy! 10 fingers, 10 toes, 1 face. Everything looks good. Such an incredible experience. The day was every bit as exciting as we thought it would be.

Our nurse told us she could tell the sex so we studied the screen to find a clue. I saw what I thought were girl parts and said, "Wow, it's a girl!" Michelle replied, "Are you crazy, can you not see his thingy?" I moved my eyes to the other side of the screen and saw it immediately...his thingy. Boyd grand kids: 6 boys, 1 girl, 1 fetus.

Rick asked me how we are celebrating...I told him probably by spending the evening arguing about names. I'm holding out for Krog.

Belly Update

Michelle's belly is growing. She's been worried that people will think she was developing a gut because it wasn't completely obvious she was pregnant. She is more comfortable now...and looks pretty amazing.

THURSDAY! THURSDAY! THURSDAY!

Well, this is it! The week we've been looking forward to for months. The week the name game starts. The week the nursery gets planned. The week we find out if we're having a boy or a girl! Thursday @ 3PM is our ultrasound. We are so excited to see our baby and find out what it is. We have no gut feeling either way, although everyone we talk to seems to know and give us some crazy reason why we're having it. Things like, "Ooh, you crave salty? It's a boy." or "Hmm, you don't feel nauseous? It's a girl." Michelle mentioned that she was hungry and someone replied, "You're hungry? It's a boy. I was always hungry when I was pregnant with so-in-so." Like a pregnant woman isn't hungry all the time anyway.

Michelle is doing great and has had no significant discomfort so far. Some husbands I know complain about how crazy their pregnant wife has become...I'm very lucky...other than the previously posted Gatorade fiasco, Michelle has been her peaceful ol' self.

Check back for pictures and the big announcement on Thursday.

European Vacation

Our trip to Europe was awesome but we discovered that 2 weeks is probably a week longer than our limit. Michelle did great with all the walking but craved food we couldn't always find.

We hit Paris first and really loved it. Tons to do, easy transportation, very clean, and nice people. The food in France is not great. Though we loved our ham & cheese baguettes the first day, we loathed them the fifth. Can someone please tell the French about MEAT!!! I will hand it them, crepes + Nutella + bananas = Happy Dagen. The crepes were so good we bought a crepe maker...yeah, we're those people.

We hit all the major attractions, including a day trip to Versailles. The gardens were great, the castle was crowded, and the Queen's Hamlet was a trip favorite. Marie Antoinette built a replica peasant village in the back of the grounds. Almost looks like Disney designed it. Paris rocks and gets 2 enthusiastic thumbs up from the Boyds.

We were pretty tired when we got to Rome but were ready for some pasta and hopefully some MEAT!!! We arrived to warmer weather than we enjoyed in France and a crazy shuttle driver. Michelle leaned over to me on the ride to the hotel and said, "Dagen, he's going 140!" I reminded her that he was going 140 Km/hour...even still, that's almost 90mph! We loved our hotel and enjoyed some good ravioli the first night. We hit all the major sights in two days and had some down time the last 2. We saw Disturbia at an English theater and enjoyed McDonalds 4 or 5 times. I got the McChicken since it had MEAT! Fries were awesome! The best part about Rome... GELLATO!!!